Hypothetical: If you were aboard the Titanic.
 

Would you have lived or died? Find out here and I'll let you know.

Tell me if you want to be a man, or if you'll take on the role of either gender, and I'll roll the dice for you and assign you a real person who was on the ship.* (If you're a woman, let me know too and I can give you a female dice roll.) If you don't tell me, I'll assume you're a guy.

I'll let you know the person's name, age, origin, embarkation point, destination, passenger class if they were a passenger, and their department and job if they were on the crew. In some cases we don't know so you'll get a blank, but the information is pretty good.

Oh, and if you were a passenger your crew stuff will come back as unknown, and vice versa if you were crew. There was a small handful of people who were both passengers and crew. The ship's orchestra and the Guarantee Workers were the two groups listed in both classes. (Guarantee workers were the expert repair guys who were assigned to the maiden voyage to make repairs of anything new that was broken. They apparently didn't have expertise in major hull repairs.)

You're then welcome to look up more detail about the person if you can find it. Some of them have interesting stories.

So sign up in the thread and I'll let you know.


* For some reason I'm missing a small number of people, but I've got about 98 percent of them in my database.

If you died and your body was recovered, here are the ships that recovered you, based on your body ID number:

MB – CS Mackay-Bennett (bodies 1–306)
M – CS Minia (bodies 307–323)
MM – CGS Montmagny (bodies 326–329)
A – SS Algerine (body 330)
O – RMS Oceanic (bodies 331–333)
I – SS Ilford (body 334)
OT – SS Ottawa [57] (body 335)

If you survived, you can go here to see the story of your particular lifeboat. Hard lifeboats were labeled 1 through 16, and four collapsible lifeboats were labeled A through D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifebo..._the_lifeboats

roll the dice

Tough break for a peasant who was pursuing a better life.

Name Delalić, Mr. Redjo
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 25
Home Bakić , Bosnia
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

I'd like to book passage my good man. Here../tosses a nickel to rainman/ have a pint on me.

Pick me!

Sign me up!

I'm going to look at this from a positive point of view. My reincarnation must have had better luck.

ROLL THOSE ****IN DICE

You spent as much time on the Titanic as anyone. You rode it from the building site all the way to the bottom of the ocean.

Name Millar, Mr. Thomas
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 33
Home Belfast, Ireland
Embarkation Belfast
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Engineering Crew
Crew Job Assistant Deck Engineer

Just an FYI. men should have only a 20% chance of surviving. So some of you may want to start breaking out your evening gowns and hoping Rainman doesn't check too close...

We're off to a rough start. Hopefully you got some of the rich people's bags placed on the lifeboats before you went down.

Name Bessant, Mr. Edward William
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 31
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Baggage Steward

roll the dice, kind sir.

Who says that 13 is an unlucky number? And how did you get on board as an assistant cook? Very clever work.

Name Wildebank, Mr. Alfred E.
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat 13
Gender Male
Age 39
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Asst. Cook

We're on a roll! Drinks for everyone!

Name McMicken, Mr. Arthur
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat 11
Gender Male
Age 23
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Belfast
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Saloon Steward

In and I’m a guy.

Oops. Not every bartender made it.

Name McMullin, Mr. James
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 31
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Belfast
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Saloon Steward

Well, at least they were able to give you a nice funeral.

Name Robins, Mr. Alexander A.
Outcome Dead - Body Recovered - No. 119MB
Gender Male
Age 50
Home St Austell, Cornwall , England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Yonkers, New York, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

In. Guy.

They found you pretty quickly. Not quickly enough, but ... quickly.

Name Evans, Mr. Williams
Outcome Dead - Body Recovered - No. 31MB
Gender Male
Age 32
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Engineering Crew
Crew Job Trimmer

I'll go.

If I don't make it I hope I played in the orchestra. It's a noble and poetic end, sinking into an inky, watery blackness that way...

I already did this at the museum in Branson.

I didn't make it. :cuss:

Yes, the first survivor!

Good job by the Chinese guy. I wonder if he even knew any English to understand what was happening. And maybe he played an instrument.

Name Cheong, Mr. Foo
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat C
Gender Male
Age 32
Home Hong Kong , China
Embarkation Southampton
Destination New York City
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

We'll give you another try.

Nope, you're doomed. But how accurate was I on the destination? I bet this guy would have lived in your house.

Name Strilić, Mr. Ivan
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 27
Home Široka Kula , Croatia
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Chicago, Illinois, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

Yay. Screw that iceberg.

Count me in (or down for the count most likely). :eek:

DAMMIT CARL :cuss:

I'm in. I am a guy but since this is all hypothetical and all that you can roll me as a female to make things easier.

You survived to trim again. You were in the most comfortable lifeboat as well, albeit not without controversy.

Name Sheath, Mr. Frederick
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat 1
Gender Male
Age 20
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Engineering Crew
Crew Job Trimmer

Actually I prefer the title "Fluffer", but thanks for the save. :D

Me me me!

Okay, let's see if you and your delightful petticoats made it.

Hey, it worked! Nice strategy. You were in the last of the hard lifeboats to get off the ship, and they did a good job of picking up people in the water, so it was pretty crowded and a close call.

Hocking, Mrs. Elizabeth "Eliza" (née Neads)
Survived, Lifeboat 4
Female
54
Penzance, Cornwall, England
Southampton
Akron, Ohio, US
2nd Class
Unknown
Unknown

You had a pretty nice cabin for a few days. So you've got that going for you.

Name Carter, Father Ernest Courtenay (Mr.)
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 54
Home London, England, UK
Embarkation Southampton
Destination New York City
Passenger Class 2nd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

It's kind of interesting to look up the names. There's a lot of information about what happened to some of them.

I was probably drunk in my cabin and never woke up.

If I was on the Titanic, I 'd try to stick it in Kate Winslet's butt.

Roll that beautiful bean footage

And as a young 20 year old making good crew wages, you might have succeeded. But then you died.

There were a lot of trimmers on this ship. What is a trimmer?

Name Stocker, Mr. Henry Dorey
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 20
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Engineering Crew
Crew Job Trimmer

Ah. A trimmer was one of the guys who shoveled coal. So maybe that wasn't great for picking up chicks in first class.

Man, you had only begun to live. And you would have been the perfect age to enjoy the early NFL games of the Hammond Pros football team. Maybe you would've even played. That makes me sad.

Name Čulumović, Mr. Jeso
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 17
Home Lipova Glavica , Croatia
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Hammond, Indiana, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

Hook me up brah




I’m a dude

There was a pretty multi-cultural passenger list on the Titanic. Emphasis on 'was', I guess.

Name Sa'maan, Mr. Ilyas
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 17
Home Hardîne, Lebanon
Embarkation Cherbourg
Destination Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

I'll play.

Roll the dice

Hit me

Another tragic loss of a bartender. Wait, he wasn't even 21. Times have changed.

Or maybe a steward was also stocking or something. Anyway, you're dead.

Name Harris, Mr. Charles William
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 19
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job Saloon Steward

A room steward in first class. That would have been interesting until you died.

Name Allan, Mr. Robert Spencer
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 36
Home Shirley, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job First Class Bedroom Steward

You had a charmed life. You were a first class passenger, you were likely having sex with Swedish women, and you survived.

According to wikipedia, you saved at least one other person as well. Here's what they say about Lifeboat D (in part).

In the end, about 25 people were on board when it left the deck under the command of Quartermaster Arthur Bright.[102][103][87] Two first class passengers, Hugh Woolner and Mauritz Håkan Björnström-Steffansson, jumped from A-Deck (which had started to flood) into the boat as it was being lowered, with Björnström-Stefansson landing upside down in the boat's bow and Woolner landing half-out, before being pulled aboard by the occupants.[104][65] Another first class passenger, Frederick Maxfield Hoyt, who had previously put his wife in the boat, jumped in the water immediately after, and was hauled aboard by Woolner and Björnström-Steffansson.[103][104] The number of people on board later increased when about 10–12 survivors were transferred to collapsible D from another boat.[102][103] Carpathia picked up those aboard collapsible D at 7:15 a.m.[46]

Name Björnström-Steffanson, Mr. Mauritz Håkan
Outcome Survived, Lifeboat D
Gender Male
Age 28
Home Stockholm, Sweden
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Washington, DC, US
Passenger Class 1st Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

That is appropriate given the years I spent working behind bars.


https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...am-harris.html

Ohhhh yeah

Am I a survivor?

I've got good news and bad news.

Actually, wait. There is no good news. You were poor and you died young, and they never found your body.

Name O'Brien, Mr. Timothy
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 21
Home Drimoleague, Cork, Ireland
Embarkation Queenstown
Destination New York City
Passenger Class 3rd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

I'm a flaming Pats fan, please kill me

https://www.geni.com/people/Elias-Sa...00015821335731

Name: Mr Elias Samaan
Age: 17 years
Last Residence: in Hardin Lebanon
Occupation: General Labourer
3rd Class passenger
First Embarked: Cherbourg on Wednesday 10th April 1912
Ticket No. 2662 , £21 13s 7d
Destination: Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania United States
Died in the sinking.
Body Not Recovered
Mr Hanna (sic) Samaan, 18, a labourer from Hardin, Syria (modern day Lebanon) boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg as a third class passenger (ticket no. 2662, £21 13s 7d). He was accompanied by his father Hanna and brother Youssef.

They were among a large group of Lebanese passengers travelling from Hardin to Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.

All three men died in the sinking. Their bodies, if recovered, were never identified.




The Titanic sinking really ****ed this family up

No problem at all. At least you had a nice 2nd class cabin, though.

Name McCrie, Mr. James Matthew
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 32
Home Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Passenger Class 2nd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

I was thinking he could have been married as an arab-type guy, but having three kids at age 15 seems like a stretch.

And that after me Uncle Sean was bitten to death by water mocassins crossing the Nueces.

That was Elias’ brother. I copied the wrong one first.

Looks like I helped build the damn thing.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...as-millar.html

By the time of the 1911 census Thomas and his family were resident at 14 Hillman Street, also in the Dock Ward, and he was described as a fitter. He reportedly helped build the engines for both Olympic and Titanic.

'Tis not the luck of the Irish.

Yeah. Um...nice work there.

What if I am a dude, but at the last second, I decide to identify as a woman?

:wayne:

They weren't sophisticated enough then to know. If I draw a completely random name for you...

Nice work on the disguise. You made it, even as a third class passenger.

Lindell, Mrs. Elin Gerda (née Persson)
Survived, Lifeboat A
Female
30
Helsingborg, Skåne , Sweden
Southampton
Hartford, Connecticut, US
3rd Class
Unknown
Unknown

Okay, no more sinking tonight. I'll be back tomorrow.

I'm in, and if it helps any I'll tell Rose to move the **** over and make room!

In. male.

Roll them please.

I am aboard! Male.

For the record I detest Celine Dion even if I’m Canadian.

oh this should be good.

Was going to make joke, then realized joke is entire theme of thread. Doh

I never survive your simulations. Might as well kill me again.

I’m a dude.

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Please allow me aboard this unsinkable vessel...

I'm a man, but please don't assign me Kathy Bates

Okay, we're back and sinking again, which is bad news for you.

Name Meyer, Mr. August
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 31
Home Harrow, London, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination New York City
Passenger Class 2nd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

Well, you didn't make it, but I bet you got a glimpse of Guggenheim during your day job.

Name Abbott, Mr. Ernest Owen
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 21
Home Southampton, Hampshire, England
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Unknown
Passenger Class Unknown
Crew Department Victualing Crew
Crew Job First Class Lounge Pantry Steward

We're on a bad streak. Second class must have been late to the deck.

Name Linnane, Mr. John
Outcome Dead - Body Not Recovered
Gender Male
Age 61
Home Chelsea, Michigan, US
Embarkation Southampton
Destination Chelsea, Michigan, US
Passenger Class 2nd Class
Crew Department Unknown
Crew Job Unknown

There appears to be some confusion about the spelling of your name. And in a move that stinks, you were supposed to go transatlantic earlier on a different ship, but the salespeople talked you into waiting for the brand new Titanic.

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.or...n-lingane.html